A New Species of New Guinea Worm-Eating Snake, Genus Toxicocalamus (Serpentes

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Excerpt from A New Species of New Guinea Worm-Eating Snake, Genus Toxicocalamus (Serpentes: Elapidae), From the Star Mountains of Western Province, Papua New Guinea, With a Revised Dichotomous Key to the GenusToxicocalamus is a genus of enigmatic vermivorous elapid snakes with a rimarily fossorial lifestyle. Although part ofp the very diverse Australopa uan terrestrial elapid radiation, T oxicoca amus is one of only six genera not represented on the Australian continent. It is endemic to the island of New Guinea, several small offshore islands, and the major island archipelagos to the south east of the Papuan Peninsula (fig. The small offshore islands all lie along the north coast of Papua New Guinea (png) and include Seleo Island (sandaun Province), Walis and Tarawai Islands (east Sepik Province), and Karkar Island (madang Prov ince). The southeastern archipelagos are part of Milne Bay Province and include the d'entrecasteaux Archipelago (goode nough, Fergusson, and Normanby Islands), Woodlark Island, and the Louisiade' Archi pelago (misima, Sudest, and Rossel Islands). Toxicocalamus is seemingly absent from the Bismarck, Admiralty, and Solomons Archipel agos, the great seasonally ¿ooded trans-fly region of southern New Guinea, the Torres Strait Islands, the Schouten Islands, and the Vogelkop and associated Raja Ampat Archi pelago of West New Guinea (indonesia).About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.